On Monday 05 July 2010 02:57:27 Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
What do you think about we create a kind of openSUSE certifications path? While people will getting success through the path to achieve a kind of openSUSE Master Certification, they will also obtaining different levels of access and privileges (merits) inside the whole openSUSE project.
Take a look at the http://www.novell.com/training/certinfo/cle/roadmap_10.html and see if this shows up some ideas about openSUSE Certifications!
This can help us to achieve two points. First, will help us to better understand our users/contributors activities and difficulties. Second, could help openSUSE users/contritutors to increase in numbers. Most young guys from schools and new university levels are looking for some certifications that can they to be better viewed and positioned to the IT/Business market.
Also we can provide a kind of certifications for trainees. rsrs - To be honest, I do not really believe this line, but as we are having a kind of brainstorm - this is the right time and place to shoot some craziest ideas. ;-) . Let's start to fly and Imagine someone needs a Trainee certification for their marketing course in their University, and they need that certification to get their University Conclusion Course Certification as a Marketing Leader. We can provide a kind of Marketing openSUSE Trainee Certification for release each candidates we delivery. Who wishes to apply for openSUSE Marketing Trainee certification must submit papers to be analyzed by the marketing team.
It's brainstorming, so I should not comment on it ;) but since you asked in the first line... If you force people to have such a certification before they contribute, it's the wrong way IMO since it would have the opposite effect of attracting people to contribute. On the other hand, having good training material for contribution and using the openSUSE distribution would be great. So, material to e.g.: * explain how to setup a new computer * explain how to build a package with the openSUSE Build Service * explain how to report a bug We have some of that in the wiki but offering it as training is an interesting idea, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126